This may be technically true (I actually don't know what the drivers full intended purpose at the time was) but it doesn't negate some extremely sketchy softwar

This may be technically true (I actually don't know what the drivers full intended purpose at the time was) but it doesn't negate some extremely sketchy software practices on a safety critical system, like "action suppression" to avoid nuisance braking. As in most accidents of this nature, there is a chain of mistakes. It's bad practice to ignore some mistakes simply because we can also point to other failures in the chain of events.